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Name: POLEZNYI also recorded as POLEZNY
Launched: 23/04/1887
Completed: 06/1887
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Hebburn
Yard Number: 271
Dimensions: 363grt, 21nrt, 150.5 x 27.0 x 12.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (19, 30 & 50 x 33ins), 144nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
06/1887 Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Co (ROPIT), Odessa
13/02/1915 Russian Imperial Navy - Black Sea Fleet
18/07/1915 Renamed T-33 also TRALCHSICK-33 (Minesweeper-33)
31/01/1916 Renamed T-42
1918 Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Co (ROPIT), Odessa
05/1918 Russian White Navy - Black Sea Fleet; renamed POLEZNYI
02/1920 Russian Red Navy - Black Sea Fleet
08/1920 Soviet Navy; renamed KANONERSKAYA LODKA NO 7 (Gunboat No 7)
1921 Renamed KANONERSKAYA LODKA NO 3
25/05/1921 Renamed POLEZNYI
16/07/1922 Government of USSR - Black Sea-Azov Shipping Co; renamed SARYCH
by 1930 Sovtorgflot, Odessa
1936 Renamed SILIN
18/11/1941 Destroyed
Comments: Icebreaker & tug but proved to be a better tug than an icebreaker
13/02/1915: Requisitioned as a minesweeper.
Armed with 2 x 47mm Hotchkiss guns
25/05/1921: Disarmed and used as a tug
1922: Also recorded as SARYTCH
1933: Deleted from Lloyds Register
1936: Rebuilt
18/11/1941: Destroyed in a German air attack near Taman, Black Sea


Above photo as T-33 is courtesy of Lemachko BV